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In a career spanning three decades, forensic psychiatrist Steven Hoge has evaluated just a handful of people implicated in acts of cannibalism. It's exceedingly rare behavior, he says, and clear answers are often elusive when it does occur. "I understand people are looking for an explanation, but there are some things that don't have any explanations," said Hoge, who directs the Columbia-Cornell Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program in New York. Hoge said he could not comment on the case of 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a man who was staying in Kinyua's family's Joppa home. According to charging documents,...

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In a career spanning three decades, forensic psychiatrist Steven Hoge has evaluated just a handful of people implicated in acts of cannibalism. It's exceedingly rare behavior, he says, and clear answers are often elusive when it does occur.
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